Is PLD actually weaker than before?

[Cabalabob]

I imagine they’re going to tweak potencies, they tend to fall on the side of caution when it comes to potencies then buff it as needed. For me I think the rotation would be fine if atonement didn’t break combos so we could prime royal authority then spam atonement until FoF is ready and don’t always need to be 2 GCDs ahead.

But even that wouldn’t be perfect because we’ll occasionally run into scenarios where FoF is about to come off CD a GCD after atonement and we have nothing we could fill that GCD with without using up our divine might, at which point we then have to use royal authority again and then prime royal authority again, so that 1 GCD turns into 4. In an ideal world they would have made our rotation just align every 60 seconds with a rework as I’m sure many of us were expecting they would do, but they didn’t so let’s assume we’re working with what we’ve got here.

I don’t want to suggest another filler GCD…. Buuuuuut if they buffed shield bash potency to 300 (with a trait at later levels) and made it not break combos it could be another tool to keep our rotation aligned.